In the past few days I received two new litmags in the mail that I’d like to shamelessly promote: Glimmer Trrain, issue 60, in which my short story “The Boulevard of Heroes” appears. The Mississippi Review, Summer 2006, in which my short story “The Great Amphibian,” winner of the 2006 Mississippi Review Prize, appears. Lest it seem as though all is smooth sailing, I should mention that in the same week that these magazines arrived in my mailbox, two rejection letters arrived as well…form rejections, no less. I say this because writing students often have the feeling that a...
Monthly Archives: August 2006
ha-ha headline
This today as one of the headlines on cnn: Evolution Opponents Suffer Setback. Hmm, could that setback possibly, um, stupidity?
The Bitch Posse
Martha O’Connor raised some serious eyebrows with her debut novel, The Bitch Posse, which Washington Post Book World called “Compulsively readable…delicious and slightly macabre.” I happen to agree with the reviewer, as I found myself staying up after late-night breast-feedings about a year ago to read just one more chapter. A kind of Heathers for the intellectual set, The Bitch Posse follows three young women with a dangerous high-school secret into their rather dysfunctional adulthood. Martha stops by today with her literary soundtrack: 1) the soundtrack to your latest book (what did you listen to while you were writing...
The international bestseller about one woman’s search for a missing child…
"Mesmerizing." ~Library Journal, starred review.
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